600,000 overseas Chinese sign petition supporting law

Nearly 600,000 overseas Chinese signed an online petition to support the proposed national security legislation for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. As of 11 pm on Monday, 593,797 overseas Chinese from about 160 associations had signed the petition endorsing the law, which is being deliberated by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the country's top legislature. Wong Cho-kei, president of the Hong Kong...